Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-11-16

Gents Underwear, latest
cheapest and best. Standi
ford, Y0unans ~ Eldred.
A good ram would now be very ae
eeptable.
John Dollar won a good horse on an
election bet.
Hard times prices on cook stoves al
Morris Bros. Il
Mrs. IT. c. Thompson and the CHI.
dren are home from their eastern trip
Mrs. Mittie Wainscott, of Nevada
Mo- IS here visiting her father. Mir
r. II. Sparks.
The Messrs. Davis viii move theil
stock OF goods into the Lebrecht bulld.
ing on North Main street
Watch ont for prairie fires. Remem
Der tie devastation done ON the Med,
cine IIyer only q few months ago. ASH
john Andrews, }. ". Lappan and 9th
ers about their losses.
Elder j. H. Garrison, editor Of the
Chrstion Evangelist. St Louis. is out
here on visit 10 his brother, VIM. Gar
rison, of Sharon. lie was here last
night and preached an instructive dis
course at the Christian. church.
Al Klowa, last Friday night. two OF
the hard characters Of that city knock
ed down, beat and robbed a man named
john Bond. securing S25. The sluggeTs
Shenebarger and Segarman, were ARES
ted and given preliminary examina
tion Monday, and failing to give bond
they were brought here by Sheriff Mel
son and lodged in Jail.
The preliminary examination of w
y. Campbell, charged with forging a
note for $3.50 on the bank of Sun City
was held Monday, before Justice Nc
Canless and the defendant bound over
10 await the action OF the district court.
Chester 1. Long appeared for the pris-
oner and County Attorney Jones APP
peared for the prosecution. The bond
was fixed at 81 800 and up to this time
Campbell has made no effort to give
tlIbond. -
= The cotton gin is now in full working
order. Thursday evening of last week
an TNDEX reporter visited tie gin, and
witnessed the operation of ginning and
baling the first bale Of cotton ever put
up in Kansas, west of Wichita. The
gin is a small piece of machinery, and
is located in the second story of the
building. The cotton is poured into a
hopper on top OF the gin, very much as
corn is ted to grist mill. The gin feeds
itself from the hopper, and while the
seed fall To the floor at the front. the
cotton passes out in a continuous sheet
at the rear of the machine. and falls
into the haling press, located in the
room below. \ man is kept busy in
the baiing press. tramping down the
snowy sheets, ami making the bale as
solid as possible. When the press is
full. and the mans weight no longer
has any effect upon ID, the powerful
beverages OF the machine are put into
taA.i4t eIt4tA AtIN N'fttff4i ~ 81
into as small "a space as it can be made
TO occupy it is then covered with bag
ging. six or eight iron hoops fastened
around il, and the thing is done. 1t is
then tumbed ont of the press, weighed
and marked aud is ready for shipment.
The majority OF people in this county
never saw a cotton boil till this year,
and very few OF them have any idea of
the processes cotton undergOes from
the boil 10 the bale. The gin is. con-
seqUently, quite a curiosity, and dOz-
ems of men, women and children visited
il, t0 see for themselves. Messrs. Har-
dy * burst have faith in this section Of
Kansas as a cotton-producing section.
and have manifested their faith by their
works. They should receive every en-
c0uragement from our people. There
were but a few bales OF cotton raised
IN lac county this year. and the gin
Wi'ln0t make money enough TO pay its
taxes. but we hope that not less than
one thousand acres Will be planted in
cotton The coming year. and we hope to
have good average season, and thus
demonstrate the fact that cotton Will
pay better than corn, and is far more
certain crop.